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Sun ultra 60 not booting

I was not able to login , so manually i checked the machine was in hung state. Nothing was on the monitor. The keyboard was not responding. so i need to hard boot the machine. After booting i could the banner and initializing memory. But it is getting stuck at this place. I even tried to power off the machine and waited for some time and then powered on the machine. Still it gets stuck after memory initialization. One more error i am getting that is "fatal scsi error at script address 8 illegal instruction", then it gets stuck. I also tried plugging out the harddisk and after waiting for some time, plugged the hard disk and powered the machine. Still the condition was and the same error was displayed.
The machine has lot of data. That i want to recover. Please let me know , how to resolv this issue.

Boot from CDROM and mount the disk at /a. Booting from CDROM will tell you if your system is having problems or your disk is the problem. If it boots from CDROM, system is fine and disk is bad. If it doesn't boot, system has a problem.

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